Ninth Sullivan Renaissance awards

GRAHAMSVILLE, NY — Hundreds of Sullivan County residents who have spent the summer working on beautification projects gathered at Tri-Valley High School on August 10 for for the ninth annual Sullivan Renaissance awards ceremony.

The biggest winner of the evening was the Wurtsboro Renaissance group who took home the $50,000 Golden Feather award for the project, which included the creation of a picnic grove for the D&H Canal linear park.

Also placing high among the honors was the Roscoe Chamber of Commerce for their project called “Roscoe Gateways: Down to the River.”

Senator John J. Bonacic was instrumental in obtaining funding for those projects as well as two others in the C category, which comprises the most ambitious of the many projects in the program. Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther secured funding for the Golden Feather.